From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 1:40: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1985737B403; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:39:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6K8d4V01460; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107200839.f6K8d4V01460@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel module options Was: Re: Fw: help me!!!! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:08:38 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:39:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 3) Steal an idea from Linux (gasp!), and have module dependencies. ie, > load ipfw.ko and then before we load up natd, we check to see if > ipdivert.ko is loaded and load it. Alternatively, loading ipdivert.ko > (before loading ipfw.ko), will automagically load ipfw.ko since ipfw is > needed to get divert running. We've had this support for a long time already; module authors just aren't taking advantage of it. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message